Nature's Fury Building Challenge Winners
To help celebrate the 2014 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) World Festival in St Louis, Mo., USA this past April, we challenged the LMS Community to design robots that can tackle Nature's Fury. See the robots that won this challenge that help fight natural disasters!

We can finally unveil all 12 Fan-made Bonus Models – as designed by an international group of MINDSTORMS Community Partners. All models are designed so that they can be built using just one EV3 set (31313). The building instructions for the 12 Bonus Models will be available for download via the EV3 Software or as pdf on LEGO.com/mindstorms as of September 1, 2013.

The challenge was to develop a MINDSTORMS NXT robot that can be used to improve the quality of life for senior citizens by helping them continue to be independent, engaged, and connected in their communities.

The new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set includes everything you need – motors, sensors, programmable brick, 550+ LEGO Technic elements, remote control – to create robots that walk, talk, move and do whatever you want them to.

We asked NXTLOGgers to build an NXT robot and its adventure! There were many all terrain vehicles, maze bots, animal bots, and just adventurous bots submitted to this challenge. See the winners and honorable mentions.

Now you can play bingo in a new way and with no risk of anybody cheating – only the Lotto Bot will know what the next number will be. The Lotto Bot was designed and built by Eric Steenstra from the Netherlands.

This robot transforms from a cube shape to a fully articulated well proportioned look alike of the famous Disney/Pixar WALL-E®. The first public appearance of this robot was at BrickWORLD Chicago, 2011.